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Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology Coronagraph Instrument on WFIRST-AFTA Wes Traub 1 ExoPAG Meeting, Chicago 13 June 2015 © 2015 California Institute of Technology. Government sponsorship acknowledged.

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Page 1: Coronagraph Instrument on WFIRST-AFTA · Figure 2-41: Simulated WFIRST-AFTA CGI images of a 30 zodi disk around 47 UMa. The noiseless zodipic model is shown at left, a 10 hour simulated

Jet Propulsion LaboratoryCalifornia Institute of Technology

Coronagraph Instrument on WFIRST-AFTA

Wes Traub

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ExoPAG Meeting, Chicago13 June 2015

© 2015 California Institute of Technology. Government sponsorship acknowledged.

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WFIRST-AFTA

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Authors

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Page 4: Coronagraph Instrument on WFIRST-AFTA · Figure 2-41: Simulated WFIRST-AFTA CGI images of a 30 zodi disk around 47 UMa. The noiseless zodipic model is shown at left, a 10 hour simulated

Gravitational Microlensing

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Page 5: Coronagraph Instrument on WFIRST-AFTA · Figure 2-41: Simulated WFIRST-AFTA CGI images of a 30 zodi disk around 47 UMa. The noiseless zodipic model is shown at left, a 10 hour simulated

Gravitational microlensing

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Page 6: Coronagraph Instrument on WFIRST-AFTA · Figure 2-41: Simulated WFIRST-AFTA CGI images of a 30 zodi disk around 47 UMa. The noiseless zodipic model is shown at left, a 10 hour simulated

Free-floating planets

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Microlensing target area

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Population beyond the ice line

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Coronagraph Instrument

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Page 10: Coronagraph Instrument on WFIRST-AFTA · Figure 2-41: Simulated WFIRST-AFTA CGI images of a 30 zodi disk around 47 UMa. The noiseless zodipic model is shown at left, a 10 hour simulated

Coronagraph Instrument (CGI)

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Page 11: Coronagraph Instrument on WFIRST-AFTA · Figure 2-41: Simulated WFIRST-AFTA CGI images of a 30 zodi disk around 47 UMa. The noiseless zodipic model is shown at left, a 10 hour simulated

Giant planet spectra

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Disk images

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The ground-space gap in contrast

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Shaped pupil coronagraph

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Page 15: Coronagraph Instrument on WFIRST-AFTA · Figure 2-41: Simulated WFIRST-AFTA CGI images of a 30 zodi disk around 47 UMa. The noiseless zodipic model is shown at left, a 10 hour simulated

Hybrid Lyot coronagraph

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Expected yield from CGI

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Time allocation

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Thank you!

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